Posted on 02/06/2018 8:24:49 AM PST by heterosupremacist
Recently back from his very first trip to China, Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo is waxing ecstatic. “Those who best realize the social doctrine of the Church at this time are the Chinese.” So Sorondo gushed to the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, on Friday. “They seek the common good, subordinating all things to the general good.”
Sorondo serves as the Chancellor of the both the Pontifical Academy of Science and the Pontifical Academy of Social Science.
"... Of course, no interview with Archbishop Sorondo is complete without a little America-bashing. He said: “The economy [in China] does not dominate politics, as it does in the United States. How is it possible that the petroleum multinationals control Trump, when we know that this is bad for the earth.”
No, Your Excellency, the economy in China does not dominate politics. But that is only because China is a bureaucratic totalitarian state. The Chinese Communist Party — and its politics — dominate not just production, but reproduction as well.
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Francis worries me.
Sickening.
More evidence that being intelligent and coherent aren't qualifications to be an archbishop.
Do what I did. Leave the church. You’ll feel better instantly.
With fools like this guy and Frankie, is it any wonder so many have deserted the Church?
When people talk about imposing the "common good" (whatever that means) it's time to start buying more ammo.
The lesson of history is that the Church flourishes when it is Holy and falters when it forgets this. The Church cannot be Holy unless its leaders demonstrate personal Holiness in everything they do. Something “His Holiness” Francis seems to have forgotten.
You are exactly right.
This Pope is concerned with Social Engineering, not the saving of souls.
Tax the Church!
In my sophmore year of high school I had a teacher who always tried to find some truth in incorrect answers to praise at the beinning of correcting incorrect answers in the classroom setting. This was a source of great entertainment for some of us, who tried to give the most incorrect answer possible to see how he would manage to see some truth in it.
After the Vatican issued the above exercise in delusion which is the subject of this thread, CHina has upped the ante.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3629823/posts
I can’t wait to see Vatican officials twisting their brains into pretzels over this one.
Christ's promise about the gates of Hell never prevailing was made to the Church, not to individual Popes and Bishops. Something that must always be remembered.
I agree but it doesn’t lessen the disgust or damage during this present spiritual war. The Muslims are happy with this pope.
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